8vo. 321 pp., [2], 28 b/w plates, translated by Thomas La Brevine, original publisher’s wrappers, in lightly rubbed illustrated dust wrapper, biblio, index, bookplate and stamp of Jacques Laget on front endpapers, previous owner’s inscription verso front jacket, otherwise copy clean & in good condition, B. Arthaud, Paris, 1959.

Synopsis

First published in English in 1954 by Eyre & Spottiswoode in London. Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott, more usually known as H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), was an English author, academic and historian. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.